Nancy Grace Biography
Nancy Grace is a legal pundit and television journalist from the United States. From 2005 to 2016, she presented Nancy Grace, nightly celebrity news and current affairs show on HLN, and from 1996 to 2007, she hosted Court TV’s Closing Arguments. Objection! : How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System, which she co-wrote.
Nancy Grace Age
Grace is 62 years old as of 2021. She was born Nancy Ann Grace on 23 October 1959 in Macon, Georgia, United States.
Nancy Grace Height
Grace stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m).
Nancy Grace Family
Grace was the youngest of three children born to factory worker Elizabeth Grace and Southern Railway freight agent Mac Grace. Brother Mac Jr. and sister Ginny are her older siblings. The Graces have been members of Macon’s Liberty United Methodist Church for many years, where Elizabeth plays the organ and Mac Sr. used to teach Sunday School.
Nancy Grace Husband
Grace married Atlanta investment banker David Linch in a tiny private ceremony in April 2007. They met in the 1970s while she was a student at Mercer University. Grace, who had given up on marriage when her fiancé died, said they had kept in touch all these years, despite the fact that they were separated by geography and time for much of the time.
Grace stated on her HLN talk show on June 26, 2007, that her life had “made a U-turn” and that she was pregnant with twins due in January 2008. In November of 2007, Lucy Elizabeth and John David were born.
Nancy Grace Education
Grace graduated from Windsor Academy in Macon in 1977. She earned a B.A. from Mercer University after attending Valdosta State University. Grace was a Shakespearean literature aficionado as a student, and she planned to become an English professor after graduation. Grace opted to go to law school after the murder of her fiancé Keith Griffin in a workplace shooting when she was 19, and went on to become a felony prosecutor and a proponent of victims’ rights.
Grace graduated from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law, where she was a member of the law review. New York University awarded her a Master of Laws in constitutional and criminal law. She was a litigation professor at Georgia State University College of Law and a business law professor at Georgia State University School of Business. She has been a member of the Mercer University board of trustees since 2006, and she has adopted a stretch of the street that surrounds the law school.
Nancy Grace Salary
Grace earns an annual salary of $8 Million.
Nancy Grace Net Worth
Grace hasan estimated net worth of $25 Million.
Nancy Grace Fiancé’s Murder
According to a March 2006 article in the New York Observer, Grace exaggerated the account of her college fiancé’s 1979 murder and the accompanying trial in her book Objection! to better promote her image. Grace has often publicly referred to the incident, describing it as the catalyst for her work as a prosecutor and victim’s rights champion. The Observer investigated the murder and discovered apparent inconsistencies between the events and Grace’s subsequent explanations. Grace told the Observer that she hadn’t looked into the matter in years and that she “try not to worry about it.” Tommy McCoy, Griffin’s murderer, was sentenced to ten years in jail for aggravated assault and life in prison for murder but was freed on parole on December 5, 2006.
Nancy Grace Saturday Night Live
Grace has been mimicked a number of times on Saturday Night Live, both in and out of the context of her show. Originally played by Saturday Night Live cast member Amy Poehler, who appeared in a parody of the Nancy Grace show during the show’s 32nd season (in episode 7). Abby Elliott would later play Grace in the sketch ‘So You’ve Committed A Crime.’ And You Think You Can Dance?, in which she appears as a dance contest judge. Grace was last seen in Season 39, Episode 11 as Grace, played by featured character Noel Wells.
Nancy Grace Gone Girl
Grace’s role, Ellen Abbot, in the 2014 film Gone Girl, was based on Grace, according to the media and Grace herself. Grace told pundits she was “extremely flattered” and “laugh[ed] out loud at it,” naming Gone Girl her new favorite representation, in an interview with actress Missi Pyle, who plays Abbot in the film.
Nancy Grace Dancing With the Stars
Grace was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars’ thirteenth season, which premiered on September 19, 2011. Tristan MacManus, a professional dancer, was her partner. The duo survived 8 weeks and finished 5th overall in the competition before being eliminated one week before the semi-finals on November 8, 2011.
Nancy Grace Melinda Duckett
Melinda Duckett, 22, committed suicide in 2006 after being interviewed by Nancy Grace over the disappearance of her son Trenton. Grace had questioned Duckett about her apparent lack of transparency regarding her son’s disappearance. Duckett shot herself the next day, just before the show aired, in a suicide that her family claims was influenced by media scrutiny. On November 21, 2006, the estate of missing child molester Melinda Duckett filed a wrongful death lawsuit against CNN and Grace TV. Grace and Duckett’s estate struck an agreement in 2010 to establish a $200,000 trust fund committed to finding her son Trenton.
The cash will be given to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children immediately if Trenton is not located by his 13th birthday or if he is recovered but is not alive. If the young child is discovered alive before he is 13, the remaining trust monies will be overseen by a trustee — Trenton’s great-aunt Kathleen Calvert – until he turns 18 and the funds would be given to him.
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